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Andrea Grimes

Andrea Grimes is a senior political reporter at RH Reality Check, a native Texan and avid Twitterer who believes that the line between journalism and activism can be, and should be, blurred. The founder of the 2014 Taco Or Beer Challenge, a spontaneous fundraising campaign that went viral to raise more than $30,000 for abortion care across the world, Andrea lives in Austin with her husband, two tabby cats and a badly behaved hound dog.

The internet--notoriously derided as a hostile, impersonal space--offers reproductive justice activists bold new ways of talking about everything from abortion to criminal justice reform to immigration policy, but only when we embrace it not as merely another tool for communication, but as a lived reality, as a place we inhabit. How can we approach social media use not as "users" seeking "engagement," but as humans hell-bent on connecting with other people to make change?

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